Nam __________________________________ Period_____ e Directions: What type of figurative language is used in each underlined passage from the play?

Some have more than one type of figurative lines language. METAPHO a comparison of two unlike things which are connected by one similarity : R Her eyes are jewels are my sunshine ll the worlds a stage You SIMIL a comparison of two unlike things using like or as --E She is like a rose So are you to my thoughts as food to life Death lies on her likeuntimely frost an PERSONIFICATIO a figure of speech that gives an inanimate object or abstract idea is N: and qualities, such as emotions, desires, sensations, physical gestures and speechhuman traits The flowers were suffering from the intense heat.; Death smiled.; The sun waved to the moon.; This computer really loves to crash. OXYMORON figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms a : Cruel love; deafening silence; pretty ugly; alone togetherHYPERBOLE deliberate exaggeration of a person, thing, quality, event to emphasize a : point external to the object of exaggeration; intentional exaggeration for rhetorical effect. These books weigh a ton,; I could sleep for a year.; I would rather die that eat that.

Figurative Language in Romeo and Juliet

Lines from R&J Figurative Language

Romeo Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, : anything of nothing first O create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Miss hapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smok e, cold fire, sick health (Act I, scene 1) Romeo Love is a smoke made with the fume of : sighs;/ Being purged, a fire sparkling i n lover s a sea nourished with lover s eyes./ Being vexed, tears. . . (Act 1, scene 1)

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How So? The oxymorons show contradictions in love: loves Rosaline but she does not feel the Romeo same.

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Romeo One fairer than my love! The all : sun / Ne seeing her match, since first the er saw world 1, scene 2) begun (Act

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Romeo O, she doth teach the torches to : burn bright./ It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night/ As a rich jewel in an Ethiop s r ea 1, scene 5) (Act

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Figurative Language in Romeo and Juliet

Romeo But soft, what light through yonder : breaks?/ Itwindow east and Juliet is the is the sun! 2, scene 2) (Act

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Romeo Arise fair sun and kill the envious : moon/ Who is already sick and pale with grief (Act 2, scene 2)

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Friar The gray-eyed morn smiles Lawrence: on the frowning night,/ Check ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light (Act 2, scene 3)

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Romeo There is no world without Verona : purgatory, torture, hell itself; Hence walls/ banished But is banished from the world ,/ And world s exile is death. . . Calling death banished / Thou cut st my off with a golden axe/ And smilest upon that head stroke that murders me (Act 3, scene 3) Capulet Evermore showering? In one little : body/ Thou counterfeits a bark, sea, a wind./ For still thy which I may call the sea,/ Do ebb and flow eyes, with tears (Act 3, scene 5)

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Juliet O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,/ : From off the battlements of any tower,/ Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk / Were serpents are. me with roaring bears,/ Or hide me in a Chain )/ O ercovered quite with charnel-house (mortuary s rattling bones dead men (Act 4, scene 1). Capulet O son, the night before thy wedding day/ : Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,/ as she was, deflowered by him./ Death is Flower my son-in-law, Death is my heir./ My daughter he wedded. I will die,/ And leave him all: life, hath living, all is Death s (Act 4, s cene 5)

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